{"id":65847,"date":"2025-05-15T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=65847"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:58:13","slug":"remembering-sofia-gubaidulina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/remembering-sofia-gubaidulina\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sofia Gubaidulina"},"content":{"rendered":"In memory of Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (October 24, 1931\u2013March 13, 2025)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring a family vacation at the age of five, Sofia saw an icon for the first time. She was fascinated, even spellbound by the impression the icon made on her. Perhaps she sensed something of what Dostoyevsky meant when he called the icon a \u201cwindow.\u201d A window into another world, but not a world impossibly far away: for Orthodox believers, the spiritual world is immanent in the icon itself. The icon represents\u2014truly makes present\u2014what is depicted. And just as the icon makes the life and weaving of the spiritual world visible, Sofia Gubaidulina\u2019s music makes it audible. Sofia\u2019s life-changing inner experience with the icon occurred in 1936. Both her religious and artistic impulses were awake<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (October 24, 1931\u2013March 13, 2025) During a family vacation at the age of five, Sofia saw an icon for the first time. She was fascinated, even spellbound by the impression the icon made on her. Perhaps she sensed something of what Dostoyevsky meant when he called the icon a \u201cwindow.\u201d A window into another world, but not a world impossibly far away: for Orthodox believers, the spiritual world is immanent in the icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21267,"featured_media":65442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8841,10939,9201],"tags":[11652,11653,8824],"class_list":["post-65847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-obituary","category-religion-en","tag-ausgabe-18-2025-en","tag-english-issue-20-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}